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And they have shown their hands
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And sink beneath the sand
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Despite, or maybe because, he was bitten by a baby shark when he was 6, Jeffrey Cusimano Jr. decided he wanted to be a marine biologist.
And despite, or maybe because, he lost his sight in his right eye when he was shot with a BB when he was 11, Cusimano is determined to continue pursuing his dream career.
Athamandia Mastoroudis does not want a career in theater, but is beginning to assemble a career in medicine through Central Hardin High School's drama club.
A 17-year-old Central Hardin senior, Mastoroudis has been a stage manager for three years working on about five theatrical productions, all under the direction of Sarah Dakin, drama club adviser.
Marlena Beverly is a John Hardin High School senior who has her sights set on a bright future.
At 13, J.B. Tiotuico of Elizabethtown is already an accomplished pianist with his sights set on The Big Apple.
"Focus on your goals, and you'll get to where you want to go, that's what I say," Tiotuico said.
Jamil Evans is taking his dance career one step at a time.
The 19-year-old North Hardin High School alumnus started a step team at the school last year because marching and concert band did not keep him occupied throughout the whole year.
Jenna Meredith's life is all about dogs and a few horses.
The 15-year-old John Hardin High School freshman had been showing dogs and horses for many years and recently took the family show dog Oakie, a miniature Aussie, to the American Stock Dog Registry's 2014 Las Vegas Invitational.
Some might claim acting is in their blood, but 15-year-old MacKenzie Blair is one of those who can back up that statement.
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Jewish World Review Feb. 7, 2003/ 5 Adar I, 5763
Marianne M. Jennings Misguided compassionate conservative
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Two Georges crossed a line this past week. George Clooney, one of Hollywood's
many useful idiots, entered Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn banishment territory when he mocked Charlton Heston's affliction with Alzheimer's. Uppity Mr. Clooney needs no nails in his coffin from me. He's box office poison.
The other George, Mr. Bush, tossed about his uppity compassionate conservatism. Misplaced compassion countermands meaningful resolution of social problems. Principle resists that impulsive urge to swoop in with feel-good dollars. Tough problems mandate tough love. Witness the drumming evil, as opposed to compassionate, conservatives took for cutting the welfare rolls and putting recipients to work. Former welfare recipients are now grateful for those "non-compassionate" reforms.
Mr. Bush stuck his compassionate big toe into international waters via the AIDS pandemic. Karl Rove poll numbers must be clicking like a PBS fundraiser board. Mr. Bush's obsession with AIDS in Africa stuck out like a sore thumb in a State of the Union address that should have had three themes: economy, health care and Iraq. Fellow citizens still being frisked by airport security for toenail clippers were perplexed.
Mr. Bush sounded like a Democrat or Hollywood type (although there is no discernible difference). Some of us also want the horrific suffering to end. We part ways with Mr. Bush on methodologies. The people of Africa deserve better than nobility professing compassion and tossing dollars in exchange for the accolades of media and liberalentsia (no discernible difference here, either). Mr. Bush landed in their snare when NPR's Juan Williams indicated he was "moved" by Mr. Bush. Our president's pledge to the nations of Africa uses Americans' money for political capital, but offers little resolution. The US as Captain AIDS is misguided.
Mr. Bush expressed astonishment that so many were dying and so little medicine gets to those stricken. Understanding these bottlenecks in medicine and care is critical before ramping up care pipelines. Of the nations coping with AIDS, five, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Madagascar and Angola, are ranked, and by a liberal think tank, Transparency International, as 5 of the ten most corrupt countries on earth. In its 2003 report, TI shows that 4 more of the African nations with AIDS epidemics don't edge above a 3 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1being the most corrupt. The highest rank any African nation achieved was 5.7.
Corruption in every level of government explains missing resources and abysmal allocation systems. The buck stops to enrich those who distribute care. There's a bit more to getting treatment to the African people than the usual liberal solution to all evils: construction of a light rail system.
Mr. Bush and his newfound liberal groupies fail to grasp that the debacles of denied care and resulting suffering documented for them across every media forum have, as their very purpose, drawing more dollars to the corrupt who will usurp them.
Mr. Bush proposes bypassing this corruption by getting dollars to NGOs. I have but one word to counter his Pollyanna belief that NGOs have a corner on virtue: Olympics. Think bribery and 2002. Think French skating judges. Think!
This harebrained use of tax dollars will be ineffectual in solving the AIDS problem in Africa even with adequate and fair distribution. AIDS prevention here and in Africa requires moralizing. Health workers in these African countries, for that matter those in our own CDC, are loathe to mention abstinence, fidelity, drug use, or homosexuality. View the CDC Website and try to find a candid discussion of such.
These folks, instead, introduced a Sesame Street Muppet with AIDS in order to educate African children about the disease and help them develop compassion. We are not fighting TB or polio. Sanitizing the origins of a disease for Africa's next generation, in the name of tolerance, sentences them to its exponential spread. US health care professionals here, and now in Africa, perpetuate the media myth that AIDS is a mainstream disease, unfairly seizing innocents and the unsuspecting. There have even been inane stories about AIDS-afflicted octogenarians in retirement villas. If they have AIDS, the cause is too much Viagra and not enough putting on the golf course.
The most frequent cause of HIV and resulting AIDS is sexual licentiousness. Such a statement causes gasps in African countries where adulterers are stoned. But deadly epidemics require candor. AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease. No Muppet can overcome that causality. Mr. Bush's failure to embrace moralizing and his disregard of corruption's role in treatment obstacles mean that AIDS' inexorable march on Africa will continue. Mr. Bush is in a new category: "misguided compassionate conservative."
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Hartmann–Shack technique and refraction across the horizontal visual field
JOSA A, Vol. 20, Issue 6, pp. 965-973 (2003)
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We compared refractions across the horizontal visual field, based on different analyses of wave aberration obtained with a Hartmann–Shack instrument. The wave aberrations had been determined for 6-mm-diameter pupils up to at least the sixth Zernike order in five normal subjects [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 2180 (2002)]. The polynomials were converted into refractions based on 6-mm pupils and second-order Zernike aberrations (6 mm/2nd order), 3-mm pupils and second-order aberrations (3 mm/2nd order), 1-mm pupils and second-order aberrations (1 mm/2nd order), and 6-mm pupils with both second- and fourth-order aberrations (6 mm/4th order). The 3-mm/2nd-order and 6-mm/2nd-order refractions differed by as much as 0.9 D in mean sphere on axis, but the differences reduced markedly toward the edges of the visual field. The cylindrical differences between these two analyses were small at the center of the visual field (<0.3 D) but increased into the periphery to be greater than 1.0 D for some subjects. Much smaller differences in mean sphere and cylinder were found when 3-mm/2nd-order refractions and either the 1-mm/2nd-order refractions or the 6-mm/4th-order refractions were compared. The results suggest that, for determining refractions based on wave aberration data with large pupils, similar results occur by either restricting the analysis to second-order Zernike aberrations with a smaller pupil such as 3 mm or using both second- and fourth-order Zernike aberrations. Since subjective refraction is largely independent of the pupil size under photopic conditions, objective refractions based on either of these analyses may be the most useful.
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OCIS Codes
(080.3620) Geometric optics : Lens system design
(330.4460) Vision, color, and visual optics : Ophthalmic optics and devices
(330.5370) Vision, color, and visual optics : Physiological optics
Original Manuscript: September 9, 2002
Revised Manuscript: February 24, 2003
Manuscript Accepted: February 24, 2003
Published: June 1, 2003
David A. Atchison, Dion H. Scott, and W. Neil Charman, "Hartmann–Shack technique and refraction across the horizontal visual field," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20, 965-973 (2003)
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Reading this, I realise (more than ever) how lucky I am with my wife. She supports me in my running, and I support her in her activities.
A few years ago, we noticed that we were getting unfit so together we decided to do something about it. She wanted to do exercise classes (they weren't for me....I tried once but I was hopeless on that blasted step! ) and I started running and joined a gym. She was nervous about joining a gym, but after a while she let me take her to the gym and then she gave up the classes, and also started running.
It hasn't always been easy. She works very long hours (school teacher), so we've had to work out a "schedule" for chores etc. I.E., I do most of the cooking and shopping in the working week, and she does most of the other chores on the weekend. It seems to work for us.
Lucky that my wifes from New Zealand. The fact that her future husband emulated Snell, Walker, Quax and Dixon went down a storm. 15k before breakfast! 'bring it on!
As Big_G has said, this thread makes me feel lucky. Although my wife doesn't take a massive interest in my running as I don't think she really gets why I do it, she never moans about me disappearing off for an hour or so, which, as we have an eight month old, is very understanding of her. She'll always come and see me run in any races, including an hour stood in the rain this morning. I think she's just glad I'm doing something healthy. I've told her she should take up running and that I'd happily look after the baby while she was running (we'd have to alternate days) but she really can't understand the appeal!
Might as well mention that at the Aldershot Road Relays where it rained the whole time and was forecast, my wife and son appeared to be the only ones supporting their menfolk, and had volunteered to come along too. The team was lucky she did as when we had won the event, she produced a camera to snap the winning team.
RRR, that's a good point. It's not just our immediate partners that can be less than supportive. Probably a question of how people identify with those around them, like smokers identify with each other as smokers. Once we break the status quo we discover how narrow minded are many of those around us. If you have a lifestyle; for want of a better expression, than encompasses diverse interests, then you might find yourself having to stand back as members of respective groups makes disparaging comments about the other. If you have a foot in both camps, you get caught in the crossfire, which you have.
I don't have a partner, but my friends have all been supportive of my running. I mean they do think I'm mad, but they always want to know how I got on or what I'm training for next. Although before I started running if someone told me they got up early on a Saturday morning to run 20 miles in training I'd have thought they were mad too.
RRR - I think that is easy to see why. Outside elite racers almost all coverage of big events such as the London marathon, GNR, Manchester 10km etc is focused completely on charity runners. The story behind that person running for charity. In work and other places when I've mentioned I'm running any marathon the first question I'm asked is "for what charity?". A lot of non-runners assume you'd only run these events if raising money, not for personal sporting targets.


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10 Tips for Restaurant Equipment Maintenance
Author: Jason Rahm
The only way to get the most benefit and trouble-free service out of your restaurant equipment is to perform regular maintenance. Regular maintenance, which includes cleaning, will keep everything functioning in good working order and can catch minor malfunctions or worn out parts before they cause expensive breakdowns. Regardless of the type of equipment, there are 10 maintenance-related tasks that you need to do for every piece of restaurant equipment that you own.
- Reference the owner's manual.
The first place you should look for proper maintenance procedures for your specific pieces of restaurant equipment is the owner's manual, which comes with the equipment. Generalized tips from an article on the internet are all well and good, but the owner's manual will tell you specifically what needs to be done to keep your equipment in tip-top shape. Most manufacturers' websites have downloadable versions of manuals, and the manufacturers should have manuals for older or discontinued models, too. - Fill out and return the warranty card.
The only way to gain the benefits of manufacturers' warranties for new restaurant equipment, which usually include x-number of years in free parts and labor, is to fill out the warranty card and return it to the manufacturer. You usually have about a month after delivery to get the warranty card filled out and returned, so don't put it off. - Educate employees on the proper use of the equipment.
Misuse and abuse are among the leading causes of restaurant equipment malfunction, and most warranties will not cover repairs resulting from misuse. Teach employees how to properly use, clean and maintain your food service equipment to keep everything up and running and eliminate the amount of money you have to spend on non-warranty issues. - Clean all restaurant equipment daily.
Daily cleaning is perhaps the most important maintenance tip for restaurant equipment. Daily cleaning prevents dirt, grime and food scraps from building up and causing damage to the machine's components. Having clean restaurant equipment is something health inspectors look for, too. » Learn More about What Health Inspectors Look For - Perform thorough cleaning on a regular basis.
Either weekly, monthly or semi-annually, depending on the piece of equipment, there are deeper cleaning procedures that need to be followed. The purpose of more thorough cleaning is to get those places that are hard to reach or to just tackle the grime that accumulates over time. - Regularly inspect your restaurant equipment.
Any time you perform a thorough cleaning on your restaurant equipment, inspect any moving parts, utility connections and other components for wear, tear and leaks. Catching and correcting small maintenance issues early (like a water leak caused by a loose hose fitting) can save you from more expensive repairs in the future. You can even set up a service contract with a local manufacturer-authorized agent and have them inspect your equipment. - Replace broken or worn out parts.
Over time, parts just wear out and need to be replaced. If something appears worn out, better to replace the worn out part soon before it causes serious problems. Contact a FoodServiceWarehouse.com Account Manager for assistance. - Be careful with do-it-yourself fixes.
One way to save money on restaurant equipment repairs is to simply fix it yourself. If the equipment is new, fixing things yourself may void the warranty, so be sure to read the warranty and know what you can and cannot do yourself. Even if the equipment is not under warranty, overly complex repairs should still be performed by an authorized service agent. - Follow chemical instructions.
Whether the chemicals you are using are meant to clean the piece of equipment or the equipment uses chemicals itself, like a commercial dishwasher, be sure to read and follow the instructions on the labels. Improperly mixing to the wrong chemical concentration can be dangerous to your employees and damaging to your equipment. - Properly care for stainless steel.
Restaurant equipment is manufactured primarily out of stainless steel. Despite its name, stainless steel can become stained, tarnished or corroded if not properly cared for, so be sure to use mild detergents, soft cloths and wash with the grain when cleaning your food service equipment.
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And can someone please try and explain the rationale for this to me?
And can someone please try and explain the rationale for this to me?
I've never understood Mercedes' either.
It probably makes since to whoever is getting a kickback from placing the order (ammo), not that it has ever happened in our government before (I'm sure all ammo companies are above manipulating our buyers).
Well zel, the government is obviously building up a stockpile of ammo so they can kill us all after they come to our houses and take all our guns of course, duh.
You do know the Coast Guard is part of Homeland Security, right?
Yes. And therefore I could see the need for purchasing patrol planes and patrol boats... but hundreds of year's worth of hollow point bullets and thousands of tanks? Or are expecting to be invaded by another country in the near future while the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines are all on maneuvers to Mars?
No idea why they would need tanks but since they do deal with drug runners who use some pretty heavy artillery, I can see the justification for bullets. My former son-in-law is in the Coast Guard and they patrolled a much larger range than I would have thought particularly toward our southern neighbors specifically for drug smuggling. Perhaps there was a sale going--you know we women love a good sale.
Thank god there wasn't a sale on shoes.
I understand about the drug smuggling problems and the need for some bullets. But as the piece noted… "at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years." And as for the Coast Guard, aren't they primarily responsible for the waters and ports? (Although those longshoremen can be tough cookies I've heard ). I might be wrong but I believe the majority of illegal drugs coming in from our neighbors to the south come over land masses. I just don't think the Coast Guard can be explained as the primary reason for the suspect level and types of purchases being made by Homeland Security, although I'm sure they are a legitimate small part of the purchase.


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Fashionable Nonsense
The 1999 Picador edition
Author | Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont |
Original title | Impostures Intellectuelles |
Language | French |
Subject | Philosophy |
Published | 1997 (Editions Odile Jacob)(French) 1999 (English) |
Media type | Paperback |
Pages | xiv, 300 |
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (French: Impostures Intellectuelles), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article[1] to Social Text, a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published.
The book was published in French in 1997, and in English in 1998; the English editions were revised for greater relevance to debates in the English-speaking world.[2] As part of the so-called science wars, Sokal and Bricmont criticize postmodernism in academia for what they claim are misuses of scientific and mathematical concepts in postmodern writing. According to some reports, the response within the humanities was "polarized."[3]
Critics of Sokal and Bricmont charge that they lack understanding of the writing they were criticizing. Responses from the scientific community were more supportive.
The book's thesis[edit]
Fashionable Nonsense examines two related topics:
- the allegedly incompetent and pretentious usage of scientific concepts by a small group of influential philosophers and intellectuals;
- the problems of cognitive relativism, the idea that "modern science is nothing more than a 'myth', a 'narration' or a 'social construction' among many others"[4] as seen in the Strong Programme in the sociology of science.
Incorrect use of scientific concepts versus scientific metaphors[edit]
The stated goal of the book is not to attack "philosophy, the humanities or the social sciences in general...[but] to warn those who work in them (especially students) against some manifest cases of charlatanism."[5] In particular to "deconstruct" the notion that some books and writers are difficult because they deal with profound and difficult ideas. "If the texts seem incomprehensible, it is for the excellent reason that they mean precisely nothing."[6]
The book includes long extracts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard who, in terms of the quantity of published works, invited presentations, and citations received, are some of the leading academics of Continental philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis or social sciences. Sokal and Bricmont set out to show how those intellectuals have used concepts from the physical sciences and mathematics incorrectly. The extracts are intentionally rather long to avoid accusations of taking sentences out of context.
Sokal and Bricmont claim that they do not intend to analyze postmodernist thought in general. Rather, they aim to draw attention to the abuse of concepts from mathematics and physics, subjects they've devoted their careers to studying and teaching. Sokal and Bricmont define abuse of mathematics and physics as:
- Using scientific or pseudoscientific terminology without bothering much about what these words mean.
- Importing concepts from the natural sciences into the humanities without the slightest justification, and without providing any rationale for their use.
- Displaying superficial erudition by shamelessly throwing around technical terms where they are irrelevant, presumably to impress and intimidate the non-specialist reader.
- Manipulating words and phrases that are, in fact, meaningless.
- Self-assurance on topics far beyond the competence of the author and exploiting the prestige of science to give discourses a veneer of rigor.
The book gives a chapter to each of the above mentioned authors, "the tip of the iceberg" of a group of intellectual practices that can be described as "mystification, deliberately obscure language, confused thinking and the misuse of scientific concepts."[7] For example, Luce Irigaray is criticised for asserting that E=mc2 is a "sexed equation" because "it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us"; and for asserting that fluid mechanics is unfairly neglected because it deals with "feminine" fluids in contrast to "masculine" rigid mechanics.[8] Similarly, Lacan is criticized for drawing an analogy between topology and mental illness that, in Sokal and Bricmont's view, is unsupported by any argument and is "not just false: it is gibberish".[9]
The postmodernist conception of science[edit]
Sokal and Bricmont highlight the rising tide of what they call cognitive relativism, the belief that there are no objective truths but only local beliefs. They argue that this view is held by a number of people, including people who the authors label "postmodernists" and the Strong Programme in the sociology of science, and that it is illogical, impractical, and dangerous. Their aim is "not to criticize the left, but to help defend it from a trendy segment of itself."[10] Quoting Michael Albert, "there is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality, which is nonsense."[10]
According to New York Review of Books editor Barbara Epstein, who was delighted by Sokal's hoax, within the humanities the response to the book was bitterly divided, with some delighted and some enraged;[3] in some reading groups, reaction was polarized between impassioned supporters and equally impassioned opponents of Sokal.[3]
Philosopher Thomas Nagel has supported Sokal and Bricmont, describing their book as consisting largely of "extensive quotations of scientific gibberish from name-brand French intellectuals, together with eerily patient explanations of why it is gibberish,"[11] and agreeing that "there does seem to be something about the Parisian scene that is particularly hospitable to reckless verbosity."[12]
Several scientists have expressed similar sentiments. Richard Dawkins, in a review of this book, said regarding the discussion of Lacan: "We do not need the mathematical expertise of Sokal and Bricmont to assure us that the author of this stuff is a fake. Perhaps he is genuine when he speaks of non-scientific subjects? But a philosopher who is caught equating the erectile organ to the square root of minus one has, for my money, blown his credentials when it comes to things that I don't know anything about."[8]
Noam Chomsky called the book "very important" and said that "a lot of the so-called 'left' criticism [of science] seems to be pure nonsense".[13]
The book has been subject to heavy criticism by post-modern philosophers and by scholars with some interest in continental philosophy. Bruce Fink offers a critique in his book Lacan to the Letter, where he accuses Sokal and Bricmont of demanding that "serious writing" do nothing other than "convey clear meanings".[14] Fink asserts that some concepts which Sokal and Bricmont consider arbitrary or meaningless do have roots in the history of linguistics, and that Lacan is explicitly using mathematical concepts in a metaphoric way, not claiming that his concepts are mathematically founded. He takes Sokal and Bricmont to task for elevating a disagreement with Lacan's choice of writing styles to an attack on his thought, which, in Fink's assessment, they fail to understand. Fink says that "Lacan could easily assume that his faithful seminar public... would go to the library or the bookstore and 'bone up' on at least some of his passing allusions".[14]
This latter point has been disputed by Arkady Plotnitsky (one of the authors mentioned by Sokal in his original hoax).[15] Plotnitsky says that "some of their claims concerning mathematical objects in question and specifically complex numbers are incorrect,"[16] specifically attacking their statement that complex numbers and irrational numbers "have nothing to do with one another".[17] Plotnisky here defends Lacan's view "of imaginary numbers as an extension of the idea of rational numbers—both in the general conceptual sense, extending to its ancient mathematical and philosophical origins ... and in the sense of modern algebra."[18] The first of these two senses refers to the fact that the extension of real numbers to complex numbers mirrors the extension of rationals to reals, as Plotnitsky points out with a quote from Leibniz: "From the irrationals are born the impossible or imaginary quantities whose nature is very strange but whose usefulness is not to be despised."[19] However, with regard to the second sense, which Plotnisky describes by stating that "all imaginary and complex numbers are, by definition, irrational,"[20] mathematicians generally agree with Sokal and Bricmont in not taking complex numbers as irrational.[21][22][23] Indeed, the concept of rational numbers has been extended into the complex domain to include Gaussian integers and Gaussian rationals.
Plotnitsky goes on, however, to agree with Sokal and Bricmont that the "square root of –1" which Lacan discusses (and for which Plotnitsky introduces the symbol ) is not, in spite of its identical name, "identical, directly linked, or even metaphorized via the mathematical square root of –1,"[24] and that the latter "is not the erectile organ."[24] Lacan's assignment of new meanings to standard mathematical terms in this way, though supported by Plotnitsky as valid within the context of his work, is of course one of the things which Sokal and Bricmont object to.
While Fink and Plotnitsky question Sokal and Bricmont's right to say what definitions of scientific terms are correct, cultural theorists and literary critics Andrew Milner and Jeff Browitt acknowledge that right, seeing it as "defend[ing] their disciplines against what they saw as a misappropriation of key terms and concepts" by writers such as Lacan and Irigaray.[25] However, they point out that Luce Irigaray might still be correct in asserting that E=mc2 is a "masculinist" equation, since "the social genealogy of a proposition has no logical bearing on its truth value."[25] In other words, gender factors may influence which of many possible scientific truths are discovered. They also suggest that, in criticising Irigaray, Sokal and Bricmont sometimes go beyond their area of expertise in the sciences and simply express a differing position on gender politics.[25]
In Jacques Derrida's response, "Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather "sad [triste]," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.[26] Derrida reminds his readers that science and philosophy have long debated their likenesses and differences in the discipline of epistemology, but certainly not with such an emphasis on the nationality of the philosophers or scientists. He calls it ridiculous and weird that there are intensities of treatment by the scientists, in particular, that he was "much less badly treated," when in fact he was the main target of the US press.[26] Derrida then proceeds to question the validity of their attacks against a few words he made in an off-the-cuff response during a conference that took place thirty years prior to their publication. He suggests there are plenty of scientists who have pointed out the difficulty of attacking his response.[27] He also writes that there is no "relativism" or a critique of Reason and the Enlightenment in his works. He then writes of his hope that in the future this work is pursued more seriously and with dignity at the level of the issues involved.[28]
See also[edit]
- Beyond the Hoax
- Cargo cult science
- Not even wrong
- List of scientific metaphors
- Pseudoscience
- Science wars
- The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense
- Nonscience
- ^ Sokal, Alan (May 1996). "A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies". Lingua Franca. Retrieved March 5, 2008.
- ^ Sokal, Alan; Jean Bricmont (1998). Intellectual Impostures. London: Profile Books. p. xii. ISBN 1-86197-631-3.
- ^ a b c Epstein, Barbara (Winter 1997). "Postmodernism and the Left". New Politics. Archived from the original on May 12, 2008. Retrieved March 5, 2008. quote:
Probably no one concerned with postmodernism has remained unaware of it. People have been bitterly divided. Some are delighted, some are enraged. One friend of mine told me that Sokal's article came up in a meeting of a left reading group that he belongs to. The discussion became polarized between impassioned supporters and equally impassioned opponents of Sokal [...] Some of us who were delighted by Sokal's hoax, at one time had a more positive view of postmodernism.
- ^ Sokal, Alan; Jean Bricmont (1998). Fashionable Nonsense. New York: Picador. ISBN 0-312-19545-1.
- ^ Sokal and Bricmont, p 5.
- ^ Sokal and Bricmont, p 6.
- ^ Sokal and Bricmont, p xi.
- ^ a b Dawkins, Richard (9 July 1998). "Postmodernism disrobed". Nature, vol. 394. pp. 141–143. Retrieved March 18, 2008.
- ^ Sokal and Bricmont, p 23.
- ^ a b Sokal and Bricmont, p. xii
- ^ Nagel, Thomas (2002). Concealment and Exposure & Other Essays. Oxford University Press. p. 164. ISBN 0-19-515293-X.
- ^ Nagel, p. 165.
- ^ Chomsky on Science and Postmodernism. Event occurs at 3:00. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ a b Fink, Bruce (2004). Lacan to the Letter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-8166-4320-2.
- ^ Sokal and Bricmont, Appendix A.
- ^ Plotnitsky, Arkady (2002). The Knowable and the Unknowable. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 112–113. ISBN 0-472-09797-0.
- ^ Sokal and Bricmont, p. 25.
- ^ Plotnitsky, 2002, p. 146
- ^ Plotnitsky, 2002, p. 145 (in Leibniz's original Latin, the quote reads "Ex irrationalibus oriuntur quantitates impossibiles seu imaginariae, quarum mira est natura, et tamen non contemnenda utilitas").
- ^ Plotnitsky, 2002, p. 120
- ^ Blakey, Joseph; Hutton, Maurice (1960). Engineering Mathematics. Philosophical Library. p. 40.
- ^ Yan, Song Y.; Hellman, Martin E. (2002). Number Theory for Computing (2nd ed.). Springer. p. 15. ISBN 3-540-43072-5.
- ^ Phillips, George McArtney (2000). Two Millennia of Mathematics: From Archimedes to Gauss. Springer. p. 47. ISBN 0-387-95022-2.
- ^ a b Plotnitsky, 2002, p. 147
- ^ a b c Milner, Andrew; Browitt, Jeff (2002). Contemporary Cultural Theory (3rd ed.). Allen & Unwin. pp. 191–192. ISBN 1-86508-808-0.
- ^ a b Derrida, Jacques (2005) [1994]. Paper Machine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 70. ISBN 08-047-4619-2.
- ^ Derrida, Jacques (2005) [1994]. Paper Machine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 71. ISBN 08-047-4619-2.
- ^ Derrida, Jacques (2005) [1994]. Paper Machine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 72. ISBN 08-047-4619-2.
Further reading[edit]
- Sokal, Alan D (1996), "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" (PDF), Social Text, 46/47: 217–252, doi:10.2307/466856, retrieved 21 March 2010
External links[edit]
- "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science", Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
- Review by Matthew Benacquista
- "I know what you mean!", review by Michael Harris
- Alan Sokal Articles on the "Social Text" Affair, including the original article
- Review of Intellectual Impostures in Nature, 1998 by Richard Dawkins
- Post Modern Generator: an online computer simulation of PoMo writing described in "On the Simulation of Postmodernism and Mental Debility Using Recursive Transition Networks". An on-line copy is available from Monash University.


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Publication Date : 02-03-2013
Taipei Twin Towers, the capital city's long-delayed showcase project, has hit a new snag after a Malaysian-led consortium slated to build the development was disqualified at the last minute. The case has been portrayed as possible fraud by a popular local magazine.
Taiwanese prosecutors are now looking into allegations made in a Next Magazine report that IGB Corp and Mid Valley City, which front Taipei Gateway International Development (TGID), were being investigated in Malaysia.
The report said Bursa Malaysia Derivatives (BMD), a subsidiary of the Malaysian stock exchange, launched a probe after getting a tip-off last December from a law firm acting for Taipei City Councillor Angela Ying.
Publicly listed IGB is one of Malaysia's top property developers. Mid Valley City is an IGB unit.
In October, TGID won the tender for the NT$70 billion (US$2.4 billion) project to build two office towers atop a downtown MRT station that will have a line to Taoyuan International Airport. The site will also link railway lines and metro and bus terminals.
The towers - one 322m tall and the other 243m - will have 1.5 times the combined floor space of Taipei 101, the world's third tallest building.
Construction was expected to finish by 2018.
However, TGID was disqualified after it failed to pay the municipal government a NT$1.89 billion performance bond by February 21. Its NT$130 million deposit was forfeited.
The project, initiated by President Ma Ying-jeou in 2004 while he was still Taipei mayor, suffered four failed bids before TGID won the tender.
Next Magazine, a magnet for whistle-blowers, ran a copy of the letter from C. Chuang Law Office, which acts for Ying, to Bursa Malaysia, in its latest issue on Wednesday.
The letter, which raises questions about TGID's financial strength, noted that it was a newly established company with only NT$77 million in paid-up capital, while the Taiwan branches of IGB and Mid Valley separately had operating capital of NT$500,000. Yet, the consortium was undertaking a project worth NT$70 billion.
"This consortium illegally won the tender," said the letter.
The magazine also published the reply from BMD's corporate surveillance and governance department, in which it asked for more information, including "additional details of offences for which the consortium is being investigated".
Ying confirmed on Wednesday that she had indeed authorised C. Chuang to act for her in the investigation, but insisted she was not "directing" the probe into the Malaysian companies.
The fiasco is a major embarrassment for the administration of Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-pin, who has said that he did not know why TGID could not pay the performance guarantee.
Hau on Monday approved the resignation of metro commissioner Richard Chen, whose department had overseen the tender, but maintained the administration had done due diligence in screening TGID and was thus not responsible for the fiasco.
The municipal government will now negotiate a contract with the second-highest bidder, Taiwan- based BES Engineering Corp.


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Roy's speed and power I think would be too much. I keep seeing Roy snapping Virgil Hill's rib when I think of a prime Roy Jones at that weight... and Harding said Roy was pretty much a 168lber fighting at 175lbs. It'd be a hell of a fight. Too bad Lennox was around or else we could've seen Roy more at Heavyweight instead of that awkward easy win against Ruiz at 193lbs. Spinks had an awkward style and used what some fighters today don't know **** about which is a jab and knowing how to throw them in bunches. With Roy's athleticism I can see him countering the jabs. Roy definitely has the power and speed to stop Spinks too. I think Roy hit a lot harder than people realize when he had all his speed with it when younger. If you can't see a hard punch coming... good night. I'd have Roy by KO in the later rounds.
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Michael Spinks was EXTREMELY difficult though. The Spinkx had great boxing skills at 175, he got true brutal one punch KO power in both hands. The fact that Roy is 5'11, giving up a 4+ inch height advantage +another 2 inch of reach in Spink's favor will work against Roy. Prime Roy at 175 was the most gifted athlete in boxing history (imo) but with Spinks(lhw version) just one momentary lapse was fatal. There were fights where everything was going well and suddenly the opponent ****ed up once and they pretty much got ended. Marvin Johnson let his defense down for 1 second and got destroyed . Vonzell let his hands down once, just once and a right cross ended his career pretty much. Another fight Spink's victim went close to the ropes (Mustafa vs Spinks) and was just beaten into a semi coma in a flash. The reason I mention these things is because Roy have the habit of doing all these. It honestly would not matter if Roy wins the first 8 rounds, as great as Roy was he will lose focus. Maybe once, but once is all Spinks need and that's it for Roy. Spinks was a real master at catching your one mistake and taking full advantage of it. Too bad the LHW Division is no longer that popular and so few people know about Spinks other then his failing against a Prime Tyson at HW. At LHW IMO he was the best h2h fighter. Last edited by chloelloyd; 09-13-2012 at 08:05 AM. |
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It's pretty sad that people just blindly vote for Roy without having seen any of Spink's fights at lhw. And without attempting to justify on why Roy will win.Other then the generic 'Roy was so fast' responses.(I actually don't even know if half the people here watched ROY'S FIGHTS AT 175, much less Spink's lol)
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The Spinks Jinx would put Jones Jnr to sleep before the 6th round, Jones whilst being the better fighter p4p would not be able to keep such a bigger, quick, skilled and powerful fighter off as Spinks. I honestly think it would be totally onesided and Jones would take a brutal beating.
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Like I posted above, there are so many factors working in Spink's favor, I just find it hard to see Roy surviving any sort of close decision without taking the risks he will need to damage Spinks, which inevitably will lead up to him getting kayoed. |
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once antonio tarver, a good rangy boxer with a ko punch, realized that all he had to do was jab over roy jones underdeveloped jab, fight on the backfoot and make roy jones come to him, it was good night...same thing, when lou del valle, got the knockdown on roy jones, except lou del valle, gave roy jones, too much respect...being that roy jones, is an unorthodox fighter, i'll give him 9 rounds, before the Jinx puts him to sleep...
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Good to see that at least some people remember Spinks at LHW.
This guy was one of the greatest LHW'S of all times. If he had stayed at 175, he would have been 50-0. Just thinking about what he would have done in today's division is scary. 6'3, great boxing skills, massive power, great left hook, good chin at 175. He might have made 168 as well with the 24 hour weight in rules. If he could make 168 effectively, I see him knocking out every single person there. |
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After the most competitive process in program history, the sixth class of Dean's Scholars at Wichita State University has been named. Fifty students from across the greater Wichita metropolitan area have been selected.
The names of the newest Dean's Scholars are available at http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1427.
Each year three local high schools are selected from the Wichita area. This year's Dean's Scholars schools were Valley Center High School, Wichita Collegiate School and Wichita Northeast Magnet High School.
There also are at-large scholarships available to any high school senior from the Wichita metropolitan area. All applicants are required to have a minimum 3.25 grade point average and a minimum ACT composite score of 26, or a minimum ACT composite score of 24 and rank in the top 5 percent of their class.
Those selected will receive full tuition, books and room and board for the 2012-2013 academic year. Additional scholarship opportunities will be available for subsequent semesters.
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The Dean's Scholars Program was created in 2007 by Christine Schneikart-Luebbe, associate vice president for student engagement and dean of enrollment management, and is coordinated by Trish Inslee, assistant to the dean, enrollment management.
The program is aimed at attracting some of Wichita's best and brightest to Wichita State through a variety of social and academic programs.
"All of these students are very talented, and I hope they decide Wichita State is where they want to pursue their education," Inslee said of this year's winners.
During the past few months, these students were given a firsthand look into all that Wichita State has to offer. The average ACT of the students selected is 29, and the average grade point average is 3.88.
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Allan, K., & Burridge, K. (1991). Euphemism and dysphemism: Language used as shiled and weapon. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chambers, J. K. (1995). Sociolinguistic theory. Blackwell: Oxford Press.
Enright, D. J. (Ed.). (1985). Fair of speech: The uses of euphemism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fasold, R. (2000). The sociolinguistics of language. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Linfoot-Ham, K. (2005). The linguistics of euphemism: A diachronic study of euphemism formation. Journal of Language and Linguistics, 4(2).
Rawson, H. (1981). A dictionary of euphemisms and other doubletalk. New York: Crown Publishers.
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Kh-55/65/101/102/555 AS-15 Kent |
Kh-55 in the Ukrainian Air Force Museum
Type | Air-launched strategic cruise missile |
Place of origin | Soviet Union |
Service history | |
In service | 1983-present |
Used by | Russia, China, Iran |
Wars | no evidence of combat use |
Production history | |
Designed | 1971-1981 |
Manufacturer | Raduga OKB |
Unit cost | unknown |
Produced | 1981 |
Specifications | |
Weight | 1,650 kg (3,640 lb) (Kh-65SE)[1] 2,400 kg (5,300 lb) (Kh-101)[2] |
Length | 604 cm (19 ft 10 in) (Kh-65SE)[1] 745 cm (24 ft 5 in) (Kh-101)[2] |
Diameter | 51.4 cm (20.2 in) (Kh-55-Kh-55SM) |
Warhead | Nuclear or Conventional warhead |
Blast yield | Nuclear 200kt (Kh-55-Kh-55SM) |
Engine | turbofan (Kh-55-Kh-55SM) 400 kgf (Kh-55-Kh-55SM) |
Wingspan | 310 cm (122.0 in) (Kh-55-Kh-55SM) |
Propellant | jet fuel |
range |
2,500 km (1,300 nmi) (Kh-55) 3,000 km (1,600 nmi) (Kh-55SM) 600 km (320 nmi)(Kh-65SE)[1] 300 km, later 600 km(Kh-SD)[1] |
Flight altitude | under 110 m/300 ft |
Speed | Mach 0.75 (KH-SD)[1] Mach 0.6-0.78 (Kh-101)[2] |
system |
inertial guidance with Doppler radar/terrain map updates; Kh-SD had a TC/IIR terminal guidance system, and an alternative active radar homing seeker was proposed |
platform |
Tu-95MS, Tu-160, Su-34[3] |
The Kh-55 (Russian: Х-55, also known as RKV-500; NATO reporting name: AS-15 'Kent') is a Soviet/Russian subsonic air-launched cruise missile, designed by MKB Raduga. It has a range of up to 2,500 km (1,350 nmi) and can carry nuclear warheads. Kh-55 is launched exclusively from bomber aircraft and has spawned a number of conventionally armed variants mainly for tactical use, such as the Kh-65SE and Kh-SD, but only the Kh-101 and Kh-555 appear to have made it into service. Contrary to popular belief, the Kh-55 was not the basis of the submarine- and ground-launched RK-55 Granat (SS-N-21 'Sampson' and SSC-X-4 'Slingshot').
A Kh-55 production unit was delivered to Shanghai in 1995 and appears to have been used to produce a similar weapon for China.[citation needed]
In the late 1960s, the "Ekho" study conducted by the GosNIIAS institute concluded that it would be more effective to deploy lots of small, subsonic cruise missiles than the much more expensive supersonic missiles then in favour.[4] Work started at the Raduga bureau on an air-launched cruise missile in 1971, with a first test flight in 1976.[5] The appearance of the US Air Force's AGM-86 ALCM in that year gave further impetus to the programme, with the Soviet Air Force issuing a formal requirement for a new air-launched cruise missile in December 1976.[4] The longer-range Kh-55SM was developed a few years after the original went into service. In the late 1980s work began on a replacement missile with either conventional (Kh-101) or nuclear (Kh-102) warheads[3] and greater stealth. It was designed by Igor Seleznyev of Raduga.[2] The importance of advanced missiles as "force multipliers" increased as Russia's fleet of available cruise-missile bombers declined in the early 1990s.[6] The cancellation of the ambitious Kh-90 ramjet missile due to INF treaty in 1987 led to a renewed emphasis on improving the Kh-55, in particular to achieve the <20 m accuracy required to hit infrastructure targets with conventional - as opposed to nuclear - warheads. First flight of the Kh-101 was in 1998, and evaluation trials started in 2000.[3]
After the end of the Cold War and anti-proliferation treaties restricting the deployment of long-range nuclear missiles, the Russians made efforts to develop tactical versions of the Kh-55 with conventional warheads. First came the 600 km-range Kh-65SE (derived from the Kh-55) announced in 1992, then the 300 km-range Kh-SD tactical version of the Kh-101 for export, and finally the Kh-555.[1] In 2001 the Russian Air Force are believed to have selected the Kh-101 and Kh-555 for development.[1]
A 1995 Russian document suggested a complete production facility had been transferred to Shanghai, for the development of a nuclear-armed cruise missile. Originally it was thought that this was based on the 300 km-range Raduga Kh-15 (AS-16 'Kickback'), but it now appears that it was the Kh-55 that was transferred to China.[7]
It is powered by a single 400 kgf Ukrainian-made, Motor Sich JSC R95-300 turbofan engine, with pop-out wings for cruising efficiency. It can be launched from both high and low altitudes, and flies at subsonic speeds at low levels (under 110 m/300 ft altitude). After launch, the missile's folded wings, tail surfaces and engine deploy. It is guided through a combination of an inertial guidance system plus a terrain contour-matching guidance system which uses radar and images stored in the memory of an onboard computer to find its target. This allows the missile to guide itself to the target with a high degree of accuracy.
The original Kh-55 had a drop-down engine; the Kh-65SE had a fixed external turbojet engine, whilst the Kh-SD had its engine inside the body of the missile. Current-production versions are equipped with the increased power of 450 kgf Russian-made NPO Saturn TRDD-50A engine.[8]
The Kh-101 version has a low radar cross-section, of about .01 square meters.[9]
Operational history[edit]
The original Kh-55 entered service in December 31, 1983.[10] The Kh-55SM followed in 1987.[5] The conventionally armed Kh-55SE was flight tested on 13 January 2000, and first used in exercises over the Black Sea 17–22 April 2000.[11] The Kh-555 is thought to have entered service in 2004, the first pictures of the Kh-101 appeared in 2007.[12][13]
The Kh-55 can be carried by the Tupolev Tu-95MS ('Bear-H')[5] and Tu-142M ('Bear-F'),[5] and the Kh-55SM is carried by the Tupolev Tu-160 ('Blackjack').[5] Sixteen Kh-55's can be carried by the Tu-95MS16 (Tu-95MSM) variant, ten on underwing pylons and six on a MKU-5-6 rotary launcher.[13]
The Kh-55 was also tested on the Tu-22M ('Backfire').[5] The Kh-SD tactical version was to have been carried by the Tu-95MS (fourteen missiles) and the Tu-22M (eight missiles);[1] the Kh-101 is expected to be carried by the Tu-160 (twelve missiles), Tu-95MS16 (eight missiles), Tu-22M3/5 (four missiles) and Su-34 (two missiles).[3]
The end of the Cold War left Ukraine with 1,612 Kh-55's, part of the armament of the 19 Tu-160's of the 184th Heavy Bomber Regiment at Priluki and the 25 Tu-95MS of the 182nd Heavy Bomber Regiment at Uzin-Shepelovka.[14] It was reported that Ukraine demanded US$3bn for the return of the planes and their missiles to Russia.[14] In October 1999 a compromise was reached that saw Russia pay US$285m for 11 aircraft and 575 missiles,[14] whilst the rest were meant to be destroyed under a US-funded disarmament programme.[15] However, in March 2005 Ukraine's prosecutor-general Svyatoslav Piskun said that in 2001, 12 Kh-55's had been exported to Iran in a deal allegedly worth US$49.5 million[16] and six to China.[15] In March 2015, Iran subsequently revealed the existence of the Soumar cruise missile with an design and range comparable to the KH-55.[17]
- Kh-55 (NATO 'Kent-A', RKV-500A, Izdeliye 120) - original model with 2,500 km range.
- Kh-55-OK - with optical guidance.
- Kh-55SM (NATO 'Kent-B', RKV-500B, Izdeliye 121) - with extra fuel tanks to extend range to 3000 km.
- Kh-101/102 (Izdeliye 111) - developed as a very stealthy replacement for the Kh-55SM in the late 1980s, the Kh-101 has a conventional warhead and the Kh-102 is nuclear.[3] A propfan version with 5000 km range was cancelled in 2000.[3] Accuracy is reportedly 6–9 m.[6] Speeds reach over 800km per hour. Estimates range that it will outnumber the Russian nuclear missile fleet by 5:1, making them some of the most numerous and effective cruise missiles in the world.[6] They are expected to be in service in those numbers by 2023. The new missile complex has been successfully tested and in recent years put into series production to equip modernized Tu-95MS bombers.
- Kh-65SE - tactical version announced in 1992 with 410 kg conventional warhead and restricted to the 600 km range[5] limit of the INF treaty.
- Kh-SD (средней дальности Srednei Dalnosti - 'Medium Range') - 300 km range conventional version announced in 1995, possibly for export. Shared components with the Kh-101, range reportedly increased to 600 km with a high-altitude approach, but the Kh-SD was apparently shelved in 2001.[1] An alternative active radar seeker was proposed for anti-shipping use.
- Kh-555 (NATO 'Kent-C', Kh-55SE, Kh-55Sh)[5] - conventionally armed version with an improved guidance system and warhead. It became operational in 2000.[11] In recent years it has been received by the Russian Air Force.
- Soumar - unlicensed copy of the KH-55 by Iran.
It was believed originally that the RK-55 (SSC-X-4 'Slingshot' and SS-N-21 'Sampson') were land- and submarine-launched derivatives of the Kh-55, but it is now known that the Kh-55 is different from the other two as its motor drops down below the missile during flight.[5]
- Soviet Union: the Soviet Air Force deployed the Kh-55 as its original operator.
- Ukraine: ~487 scrapped, ~587 returned to Russia[15][19]
Similar weapons[edit]
- RK-55 - so similar to the Kh-55 it was long believed in the West to be merely a sub-/surface-launched version
- AGM-86 Air-Launched Cruise Missile - 1430 kg missile with 2400+ km range, Mach 0.73
- AGM-129 ACM (Advanced Cruise Missile - stealthy 1330 kg missile with 3700 km range)
- BGM-109 Tomahawk - surface/sub- launched, but otherwise similar to the Kh-55
- Babur missile (Pakistan)
- Nirbhay (India) - Nirbhay is an all-weather low-cost medium-range cruise missile
- CJ-10 - Chinese land-attack cruise missile, believed to have incorporated elements from the Kh-55
- Meshkat (missile) - Iranian land-attack cruise missile in development
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kh-65SE/Kh-SD", Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems, 2008-09-09, retrieved 2009-02-06[dead link]
- ^ a b c d "Air Force Priority Given To Conventional Cruise", Jane's Defence Weekly, 1995-08-19[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f "Kh-101/-102", Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems, 2008-09-08, archived from the original on August 4, 2008, retrieved 2009-02-06[dead link]
- ^ a b "Kh-55/RKV-500A, Kh-55SM/RKV-500B, Kh-555 and Kh-65SE (AS-15 'Kent')", Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, 2008-08-01, retrieved 2009-02-06[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kh-55 (AS-15 'Kent'/Kh-555/RKV-500/Kh-65)", Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems, 2008-09-09, retrieved 2009-02-06[dead link]
- ^ a b c Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, 2008-07-28 http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Air-Launched-Weapons/Kh-101-Kh-102-Russian-Federation.html, retrieved 2009-02-06 Missing or empty
(help)[dead link] - ^ "China's new cruise missile programme 'racing ahead'", Jane's Defence Weekly, 2000-01-12[dead link]
- ^ "- >". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ^ http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/heavy-bomber-force-overview/
- ^ "ОАО «Корпорация Тактическое Ракетное Вооружение»". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ^ a b "Kh-55SE cruise missile used in exercises", Jane's Missiles and Rockets, 2000-05-24[dead link]
- ^ "NEWSru.com :: -555, " "". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ^ a b "Details emerge of Russia's latest cruise missiles", Jane's Defence Systems News, 2007-10-22, retrieved 2009-02-06 Includes the first public picture of the Kh-101[dead link]
- ^ a b c "Russia's strategic bomber fleet achieves new heights", Jane's Intelligence Review, 2000-03-01[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e Warner, Tom (2005-03-18), "Ukraine admits exporting missiles to Iran and China", Financial Times
- ^ Dr C Kopp. "Bypassing the NMD - the Cruise Missile Proliferation Problem". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ^ "Iran Unveils New Ground-Based Cruise Missile System". PressTV. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ^ "DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ^ "Как Украина ядерные боеголовки считала". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- Gordon, Yefim (2004). Soviet/Russian Aircraft Weapons Since World War Two. Hinckley, England: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-188-1.
- http://www.eng.ktrv.ru/news/publ/830.html?PHPSESSID=b55062d53f861256438076e6c6d01f44
External links[edit]
- worldweapon.ru (Russian) - has good pics at the bottom
- GlobalSecurity.org - Kh-55
- fas.org - AS-15 KENT
- Kopp, Carlo (2006-06-22), Bypassing the NMD: China and the Cruise Missile Proliferation Problem, Alexandria, USA: International Assessment and Strategy Center - Excellent review of the routes by which Kh-55 technology has proliferated.